First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Springfield, OH 45506. It is one of 185 churches in Springfield, and one of 22 Baptist congregations in the city.
Springfield, OH, 45506Website: https://www.firstbaptistspringfield.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 50.9%
- Child Poverty: 45.1% (26.3–62.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Poverty Rate: 32.2% (20.0–44.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 15.0% (5.6–24.4%)
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 67 churches — about one congregation for every 991 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- South Fountain Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Jesus Family Worship — 0.1 mi away
- City of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Faith Center — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New North Street African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Clifton Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fountain Of Life Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Lebanon Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away